Lunchboxx wrote:the heck is Ranma? Color me confused over the 3100th release.
You young whipper-snappers get off my lawn!
Ah, that took me back... quite literally too.
While fun what kept really yanking me around was that I recognised most of those story lines from the first volume of the manga and the first season of the anime. Running them all together with a pretense of an over-arching plot felt odd. Especially considering the changes they did make, like having Akane's haircut at Kuno's mansion because of an attack by the Razor Ramon wannabes (speaking of which, how did they get past the damn crocodile?) as opposed to during Ranma's first fight with Ryouga.
Speaking of which, the pig shaped door sign and pig plushie in Akane's room were nice touches, even if they weren't going to have the Eternally Lost Boy show up.
Some of the decisions were just... odd though. Giving Ranma the Mokou Takabisha so early (and having Genma and Soun have access to it as well) was odd, especially since it was the last acquired and one of the least used of his techniques. I can't imagine the Amiguriken or the Hiryuu Shoten Ha would have been that much more expensive to add in as FX (or Soun's Demon Head).
Similarly having Tofuu as another member of the Anything Goes School (to use the old Viz translation) seemed forced, at least for those of us who remember the original. He did plenty fine as an ordinary martial artist in the manga. Ditto for mentioning other Masters of the Anything Goes, especially since they never showed up and in the manga there were only five practitioners of the school (Genma, Soun, Ranma, Akane and.... Happousai).
As for everything else... I can understand why Cologne and Happousai never showed up for practical reasons, but I still would have like to have seen Mousse, Shampoo and Royuga. Kinda glad Kodachi
didn't show up though. Saved my ears from bleeding. And I kinda found the whole 'okama' thing as enemies kinda ironic considering that's Pantyhose Tarou's favourite insult for Ranma.